The Pentax Optio M30 score a seven megapixel CCD brainchild sensor, coupled to an smc Pentax-branded 3x optical speed lens. Announced coming the Optio T30, the Pentax M30 is the additional affordable of the two models. Priced at $199.95, the Pentax M30 uses a 2.5" LCD exhibition with a arbitration of 115,000 pixels - a stunt smaller than (and half the adjustment of) the example used in the T30, and lacking that camera's touch-screen interface. The M30 is restricted to multi-segment metering only. It also has a rather less bright maximum aperture (f/3.1 to f/5.9 across the zoom range, as compared to f/2.7 to f/5.2 on the T30).

ISO ranges from 64 to 400 unbefitting automatic control, with the faculty to stand this to a maximal of ISO 1600 guidance guidebook design (and ISO 3200 moment what Pentax dubs "Digital SR" mode). Images are stores sway 21.9MB of built-in memory, or on Secure Digital cards (including the newer SDHC types).